Women PetPreneurs

Mindy Dutka Dogs I Meet Chief Storyteller Mindy is a pet photographer, dog-charity fundraiser and a storyteller. She photographs because she absolutely love dogs and believes every dog has a tale. Mindy specialize in Brand Photo Shoots offering pet related businesses, veterinary practices and dog-friendly companies a library of images that tell their story. The images can be used across social med...

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Mary is joined by Chris Pearson to discuss self care during the busy holiday season.

Malissa is a Certified Aromatherapist for both human & animals. Master Massage Therapist for humans & animals, Pet Groomer and Animal Wellness Advocate. She is a published author, national educator and speaker business coach, as well as a consultant to the pet grooming industry. Her life has always been surrounded by a love of animals from show dogs and cats to farm animals. Essential oil therapy...

Debi is the owner/stylist at A Cut Above, in Albany, GA since 1997. She is a former competitive groomer who has over 35 placements, including a Gold and Silver medals at Intergroom and group placements at the Atlanta Pet Fair. Several years ago she decided that teaching is more satisfying than competing. She has been blogging since 2008, and has written for numerous publications. Her blog has been...

Deb started in dog grooming and training over 40 years ago and currently works as a kennel manager at the original location. She shows purebred dogs have owned champion pembroke welsh corgis, standard poodles, clumbers, bernese mt.dogs, cavaliers, and cardigan corgis and occasionally works movie/still industry working with a variety of species . Currently, Deb run a grooming school trying to help...

Cheryl A Purcell NCMG, A 3rd generation breeder, 2nd generation groomer, 1st generation GroomTeam USA. Cheryl made GroomTeam USA for six straight years 2002-2007. In 2009 Cheryl officially retired from grooming competition to pursue speaking and judging and mentoring. 2011-2018 she was the GroomTeam USA Coordinator, captaining the World team to two Golds and a Silver. Cheryl also shows and breeds...

Certified Master Groomer Liz Sines leads the popular Holiday House Spa on State, in historic Doylestown, PA. A change from her long standing mobile grooming business and previous house call experience. Liz is certified through both NDGAA and IPG She competes regularly with her beloved pomeranians, poodles, and handstrip including Giant Schnauzers. Liz began grooming at a very young age, first with...

As the creator of Wear Wag Repeat, Tori Mistick has built an online community of over 60,000 enthusiastic dog moms. While continuing to grow her blog and social media communities, Tori launched an online shop to support other dog mom makers and hosts a podcast highlighting women in the pet industry. To inspire other women to pursue their dream of working alongside their dog, Tori offers online cou...

National Certified Master Groomer, Helen J Schaefer has been grooming for nearly 15 years, and competing for 5. Over this span of time she has done everything from Housecall and Corporate to Mobile Grooming. She is the former owner of the award winning The Groom Studio, whose slogan, "Where every dog is a work of Art" has become Helen’ s personal Mantra, and what she hopes to pass on through teach...

Erin began grooming under her mentor, Donna Skura in 2004. In 2009, she set a goal to open my own shop within 5 years and partnered up with her best friend, Wenchi Liu and opened up All About Paws Pet Spa in March 2014. From 2012-2016, she worked for E-Z groom at Groom Expo West. In February of 2016-2018 worked as brand ambassador for Aesculap (German red clipper), on the west coast. February of 2...

Popular speaker Melissa Jepson has owned and operated the award winning grooming salon Pupscale Pet Salon in Montclair, California since 2013. As a founding member of the Association of Holistic Pet Professionals she believes deeply in creating a soothing, well rounded environment for all aspects of the grooming salon. She also enjoys teaching easy to access webinars at Pawsitive Educational Train...

Started as a bather and doing prep work in jr high on weekends and school breaks at her mother’[s shop and took over as owner in January of 2010. Owned it for 9 years before moving to Garland, Maine in March of 2019, when her husband was offered a professorship at the University of Maine. Certified in canine massage therapy, first aid and CPR, and Infectious disease management, as well as received...

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From coast to coast it’s the mobile groomer you love the most ! It’s Laura Jayne Massaro! Nearly 2 decades of experience, from bather brusher in the 90s with high hopes of someday owning her own mobile grooming business. Since 2015 Hair Of The Dog Mobile Pet Spa’s wheels have been gracing manhattans busy streets. With a lifetime of perfecting process from front of the house to back of the house sh...

Carol Visser has been involved in the pet industry since 1982 in various capacities, including grooming in and owning a busy suburban shop, training dogs, working as a product expert for PetEdge, teaching at a grooming school, and giving seminars at grooming shows. She certified as a Master Groomer with NDGAA in 1990 and as a Certified Pet Dog Trainer in 2007 and continues to enjoy the pet industr...

Christine’s first ‘real’ job at 15 was as a carer and bather at a dog resort and day care. At 16, she met Mary, working as her bather for about a year and learning along the way. Learning from Mary and other talented and experienced groomers, Christine has groomed professionally for over 15 years in salons in Connecticut, New York, Michigan, and Australia. With a degree in business and a career in...

Kellie Halteman grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Her youth was spent showing Quarter Horses and helping in the family business of harnessing races. I was also highly involved in FFA. She started grooming in 2012 at Petsmart and worked there for about 4 years. From there moved on to my current place of employment where I am currently the only groomer at a daycare facilty. She is CPR Certified an...

Anne has been a professional pet stylist for over 20 years, joining the team at The Village Groomer & Pet Supply in Walpole, Mass in 1995. The Village Groomer received Best Independent Retail Grooming Salon twice by the Cardinal Crystal Achievement Awards. Anne was the recipient of the Cardinal Crystal Award for Journalist Of The Year for her work on the instructional article in Grooming Business...

Lisa Leady NCMG is a 3rd generation groomer with over 40 years experience. She grew up on the floor of a grooming room, and began learning at a young age.. she attended her first grooming show in 1998 and noticed her work looked nothing like what was going on in the contest ring. On that day she made a promise to herself that she would learn how to groom like that and earn a Groom Team USA jacket....

Chrissy started working with dogs as a kennel attendant in 1986 as part of her Animal Science program at an Agricultural High School and fell in love with grooming and training. Chrissy is a Certified Professional Groomer through International Professional Groomers, Certified Behavior Consultant for Canines and a Certified Professional Dog Trainer) through the Certification Council for Professiona...

Dr. Sacheen Mobley is the Creatrix-in-Chief of Living and Loving Your Best, LLC. Dr. Sacheen writes, speaks, teaches and coaches on the topics of finding your purpose,communication, and life after divorce. She has written several webinars and e-books and has been a teacher for over 15 years. She has been published in several magazines including Spiritual Badassand The Spiritual Entrepreneur. Her c...

Dara got her start in 1999 when she attended the Nash Academy in Lexington, Kentucky. She then went on to earn her BA for Business Management from Ottawa University. ​ Sh owned Dara’s Paw Spaw and now runs The Whole Pet Grooming Academy, which is a holistic based grooming school. I love her for that. Dara offers twice yearly business retreats.

Catherine Anne Frend-Gillihan Ret. NCG, BS-INDS, MS-HSCO, EEFA, & EFL/P Practitioner I am a retired groomer of 28 years. I also worked as a Veterinary Technician until I burnt out. I went back to school close to the end of my retirement as a way to make sure I could continue working in a field that was animal related, and that would provide a helping hand to my previous work colleagues. So, I dove...

Amy is embarking on her second careeer. She hails from the corporate world specializing in branding and marketing. She is opening Wag and Shine Mobile Grooming in Morris County, New Jersey in the fall. She is actively looking for a head groomer with very attractive benefits.